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Well I expect he didn't count on losing against Italy and being up against the wall in only the second match. A squad of 23 including 3 keepers isn't too much provided you progress in the tournament, if you're going to get knocked out at the initial group stage you might as well only take 14 or 15, that's largely enough. After that accumulated yellow cards and injuries force you to use the depth of your group, I match suspension for just 2 cards idoesn't give you much scope especially in key areas like CM where players get cards often enough. Think there are a few suspended already after only 2 games max per pool. But Shaw was a poor choice, should have taken Cole and played him from the start, big game experience like CL and EL finals is useful enough in games such as England have had already. That's one of the England squad's biggest problems in my opinion, there are too many players without CL experience, it's what guides players in difficult situations, they've been there and done that. I know Deschamps is fanatically keen about it.

According to some Uruguyan exile that we had commenting on Infosport after the game last night Suarez is still on 1 leg with injections.

really, thought that was Cavani, might have been getting another tinny out of the fridge at that moment I suppose, can't get any maid service around here any more.

Perhaps that's what the coach told him to do eh. Should never have left Ashley Cole at home, that way Hodgson would have had an alternative at LB. Bad squad selection was always going to handicap England. We have to get to a point where the popular press doesn't pick the squad. Oh and stop taking walking wounded just in case they have miracle recoveries before the final which we wouldn't qualify for anyway. England could still have won last night...if they had Suarez,wasted too many 70% chances. Loads of shots on goal, only one beat the keeper. Suarez 2 shots, 2 goals.

perhaps not....on a "free", if he'd cost them even 5 million over say a 4 year contract that means about 25 K more a week that they can pay him without taking much of a hit. Being out of contract is a great advantage for desirable footballers, look at Sagna, on the open market he'd cost at least 12/15 million, on a free he's got so much more negociating power.

T'was in L'Equipe a while back, Vincent Labrune (CEO at OM) isn't really a "football man" per se. So he used his network of friends and aquaintances to help him fill the managers role at the OM, Anigo the Sporting Director having been sidelined by then. MP was amongst his first targets but was known to be uninterested in the job. Labrune reached out to Luis Fernandez (known to MP at PSG) who persuaded Mauricio to get in touch with Bielsa for them, did that and then assisted in the rest of the recruiment process. Labrune wanted the style that the Bielsa stable brings, he found a way to get it that's all.

It would be interesting to have a complete demography of ST holders actually, including the number of very young spectators.

Spurs are trying to buy Lukaku , they won't need Osvaldo who's obviously unsuited to the PL game, MP knows that by now.

must have missed that then, ties in with other info that we've been given though, albeit from a less official source, might be a tidy sum at the end of the day then. Mind you disinformation is spread in devious ways, LR can't back track on that if indeed it's what he's actually said, surprised he's been so forthright over it actually because if we're even a couple of bob short there will be reclamations.

Did Guan2.0 not assure us that it's roughly 35 million plus a bit if we get some incoming fees. Then again I don't always believe all I read on this forum, even from ITKs. I'd think that if we don't spend at least as much as we receive there will be a bit of weeping and wailing, plus of course a few mandatory "I told you sos".

Well if it's anyything like my undergrad poker experience the first of the "last hands" was at about midnight and the final,final last hand was just before the 9am lecture.

define net spend, if we sell for say 50 million or so that means we could easily buy a player for 15 million or so (which we'd have to do if we're trying to replace Schneiderlin,Lallana,Shaw or Lovren) and still be well within a low net spend bracket. If any of those 4 leave we'd be looking at a significant sum for a like for like replacement.

30% drop for a faw quid more, surely not, well unless Cortese's mum bought 5000 tickets or so last season that is. That is a serious initial revenue drop, something up around 3 million £ I'd think.

Surely not ....

Won't risk him for a dead rubber though, depends if England can still qualify by then or not.

What because he's 6ft 5" you mean,

She"s so vain, I bet you think this post is about you, don't you. (Carly Simon circa 1973)

I really, really don't. When the FA appoint a decent manager who'll stop this as many Liverpool players as possible and a few other attitude then I might be more inclined to support them as my second international team. Hodgson is a dinosaur, England need to get knocked out and made to pay for the error of appoiinting him.

Which of course is why he's out of contract with the relegated Ajaccio and yet no club seemed to be falling over themselves to sign him before Tuesday. He's hit and miss, same can be said about any goalkeeper really. Look at Jaskalainen against us at St Marys, didn't finish the season as Number 1 at West Ham though.

Wasn't he just, but now that it's done I feel that there's no way back for him!; should never have been sent to Juve on such watery terms anyway. We needed him, other clubs get round it, we couldn't. I really don't think it was a Mauricio decision, it came from "upstairs" as was said at the time.

Don't really care who wins myself, just hoping to see a decent game. Shouidn't be too hot in Sao Paulo today so England shouldn't be too disadvantaged on that front.

I don't think we'll get any money for him at all right now, which is why we're trying to loan him to Inter for the season with an 11 million euro buy option at the end. Inter are only warm over it though, Mazzari wants him but there are other options, if they take him it will be on their terms not ours.

depends if Kenya look like being able to qualify for the next ANC really, I don't think they're very good though so perhaps not. If they did it would mean us being without him for 5 or 6 weeks early next year. Right looked it up, Kenya have a 2 legged play-off against Lesotho this summer to see who goes into the main competition, games on 19th July and 1st August. Just what we need to get our pre-season under way, presume they'll have some sort of training camp before that. So in fact when you take away all the WC players there won't be many of our top lads available at the start of pre-season training with the club, must be what about 2 weeks away now?

So basically Rogers and Reed are running the club, Rogers and Reed, sound like bespoke tailors really. Never figured what RK was supposed to be doing anyway myself, can't see that it makes much difference whether he stays or goes. He won KL over with his gab at the WEF, she wanted to give him a job in the new set up, what that is exactly remains to be seen.

It's money down the drain anyway, just need to get him off the wage bill and take whatever we can.